Er, yes... about those strippies...

I know I said I wasn't going to be posting anymore strippies for a while, but I found out that friends of our had a baby boy, and it really was a strippie situation, if you know what I mean.








Five different fabrics again, which works out well with 11 strips each cut 5" wide, because you get the first, middle, and final strip in the same fabric. The final dimension is just under 39" by just over 49". Big enough to make the transition to being a toddler's cuddling quilt.

I meander-quilted along each seam. It's my most successful attempt at that yet, but still I don't feel extremely confident about it. Practice, practice, practice.


















You know how some colours are just more difficult to work with than others? That lighter turquoise was one of those fabrics that sat in my stash for ages and ages. I bought a metre of it because it looked like a good semi-solid, and it was on sale, but once I got it home it eluded every attempt I made to use it.


















But I got this Fossil Fern "Bluebells" in the mail, and the colours weren't what I was expecting. Guess what! Somehow, it brought all these fabrics together for me, and away I went. The darkest blue, which I had oceans of, is final whittled away down to just a few scraps, and the same for the turquoise.














Just the hand-stitching left on the binding now, and it can go North to G.P. We're stopping at a lake today after we look at some houses, so I'll bring a lawnchair and a needle and thread and maybe I'll get that finished while the kids swim.